Financial Reform: Eating Small Businesses

Your car is spying on you. That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas last week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive by Elon Musk’s company was impressive, but also shines a spotlight on a difficult question as vehicles become less like cars and more like computers on wheels. Is your car company violating your privacy rights? “You might want law enforcement to have the data to crack down on criminals, but can anyone have access to it?” said Jodi Daniels, CEO of privacy consulting firm Red Clover Advisors.

The author and her husband have started weekly "office hours."Courtesy of Pooja ShahMy husband and I are new parents, and parenthood has changed our marriage. We found ourselves missing each other and wanted a way to communicate the way we used to. We started to implement "office hours," a weekly ritual during which we have important conversations.

Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BIStocks surged and the dollar fell Monday after a report said Trump's tariff plans may be watered down. The report followed Trump's broad tariff threats against Canada and Mexico late last year. Trump denied the report in a post on Truth Social, and the dollar pared its losses.

Zelenskyy said many more North Koreans could come to fight for Russia. Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images3,800 North Koreans have been killed or wounded fighting alongside Russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. But Ukraine's president told the Lex Fridman podcast that hundreds of thousands more could arrive. The estimate came amid a discussion of the danger to Europe if the US leaves NATO.

Accounting firms are struggling to attract talent. Momo Takahashi/BINearly 160 accounting execs and partners were asked about why firms were making more auditing errors. The auditors were split on whether a better work-life balance could reduce the number of errors. But they have to consider whether remote work could help attract Gen Zers amid an accountant shortage.

Miles Mitchell and Timothée Chalamet at the Golden Globes. Gregg Deguire/Penske Media/Getty ImagesTimothée Chalamet and Glen Powell brought lookalike competition winners to the Golden Globes. Lookalike competitions sprung up in 2024 for actors like Zendaya, Paul Mescal, and Jeremy Allen White. After Chalamet and Powell took theirs to the Golden Globes, some say the lookalike trend should stop.